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| |**Flag Colour**|| | |**Flag Colour**|| | ||
| |**Flag Design**|| | |**Flag Design**|| | ||
| - | |**Field Armies**|Leven 1644-5| | + | |**Field Armies**|Callendar 1644| |
| | |Middleton 1646| | | |Middleton 1646| | ||
| </WRAP> | </WRAP> | ||
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| ====1644==== | ====1644==== | ||
| - | *May: Raised in Kirkcudbrightshire | + | *May: Raised in Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire and a company from Annandale |
| - | *July to October: Siege of Newcastle | + | *Assigned to Callendar's force |
| + | *July to October: Siege of Newcastle, guarding the bridge of boats | ||
| ====1645==== | ====1645==== | ||
| + | *May to June: Quartered at Linlithgow, then return to England | ||
| *July to September: Siege of Hereford | *July to September: Siege of Hereford | ||
| + | *Autumn: Return to Scotland | ||
| + | *November: Allocated recruits from Dumfriesshire | ||
| + | *December: Quartered in Perth | ||
| ====1646==== | ====1646==== | ||
| + | *January to April: Quartered at Aberdeen, perhaps detachment at Fyvie Castle | ||
| *March: Siege of Kincardine Castle | *March: Siege of Kincardine Castle | ||
| + | *Summer: Serving under Middleton | ||
| + | *August: Half the regiment quartered at Selkirk | ||
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| + | ====1647==== | ||
| + | *February: Disbanded apart from 53 men sent to [[covenanter:foot-regiments:general-of-artillery|The General of Artillery’s Regiment of Foot]] of the Scots New Model Army | ||
| =====Notes==== | =====Notes==== | ||
| + | A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s //A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651// Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0 | ||
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| On return to Scotland was brigaded with [[covenanter:foot-regiments:william-stewart|Colonel William Stewart’s Regiment of Foot]] serving under Middleton. | On return to Scotland was brigaded with [[covenanter:foot-regiments:william-stewart|Colonel William Stewart’s Regiment of Foot]] serving under Middleton. | ||
| - | =====Coats and Flags===== | + | =====Coats, Flags & Equipment===== |
| + | Presumably clad in the usual Scots hodden grey. | ||
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| + | In April 1644 300 pikes and 600 muskets were ordered to be delivered to Kenmure. | ||
| =====Notable Officers===== | =====Notable Officers===== | ||
| ==== Viscount Kenmure==== | ==== Viscount Kenmure==== | ||
| + | Robert Gordon, 4th Viscount [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_of_Kenmure|Kenmure]] later supported the Royalists. | ||
| =====Strength===== | =====Strength===== | ||
| + | *December 1645: 400 men | ||
| =====See Also====== | =====See Also====== | ||
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
